The flowers that bloom in the spring tra-la!

 

Well, flowers and other things ...

Spring is a touch tardy this year. And we're sorta shorta rain ..

But ... here we are, Cup Week coming up and things are budding and even blooming ..

Yellow has been my favourite colour for decades. Witness, my racing silks ..

When my beloved Ian died, oh so many years ago, I buried his ashes under the old cherryblossom tree in the garden in front of my living-room window, and Wendy and I planted golden lilies and irises on the spot. Each year, they come into bloom in Yesvember ... I hadn't really noticed, but of course, each year they have spread a little wider .. and this year they have outdone Wordsworth's daffodils ..

Yes, the cherry tree has gone ...

And yes, that's Mr P[eacock] photobombing ...

Cheeky blighter, he's suddenly burst into activity with the arrival of All Hallows' Eve!  Woglinde got quite a shock ... but she's hanging around waiting for a repeat performance ..

He's thinking about it ....

and doubtless thinking also of past years, when he could battle off the concurrence and service thirty hens a day

This little patio rose has upheld it's reputation for precocity. While other bushes are merely budding, the honeychild is first off the mark as ever ..

He'll have hundreds of blooms over the summer (when it arrives) ... 

The first strawberries are forming ...

The first flowers on the tomatoes

The wisteria is hanging on in there ..

The hawthorn is in flower ...

And the self-planted .. I have a weakness for these children of nature ... and the revenants from previous years are popping up, in places expected and unexpected...

I didn't really need to buy any new ones, but ...

I guess it's time to go out and water all these chaps. All right, I'm coming ....